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Handsome Idiot | Evil Genius

Eh, didn't love that one. William Talman was a menacing villain but I never cared about the two guys he carjacked.

Movie poster for The Hitch-Hiker: “Who will be his next victim… YOU?”

Day 3 selection for #Noirvember (and another RKO release): THE HITCH-HIKER (1953), directed by Ida Lupino. I have a feeling they shouldn’t pick this guy up.

On merriam-webster.com right now. Feels like I’ve missed something…

They’re still squeamish about acknowledging racism as a systemic problem. They’d much rather frame it as something this individual did to that individual one time.

This is deeply sad, journalistically. Teen Vogue has done much brave political coverage in an age when few outlets are willing.

I woke up at 5:00, absolutely convinced it was 6:00. Looked at the clock and everything.

On the bright side, it was the most productive morning I’ve had in ages. But the crash is inevitable.

Johnny Blaze flashes back and we see the memory. “He remembers being knocked unconscious by a pair of thieving hoboes many months ago – –“ The hobo’s are literally Laurel and Hardy. #TCMParty

NIIIIICE!!!

HOLY SHIT that ending!!!

Okay, Jean Simmons is freaking me out a little in this movie. I didn’t know she could do that!

Film poster for ANGEL FACE: "The men she loved she destroyed! The violent drama of a rich girl - poor boy love triangle that unravelled in double murder!"

Day 2 selection for #Noirvember: ANGEL FACE (1953)

Sigh…

“Mr. Bartelli, the bedbugs will never forgive you. Your skin is made of iron.”

“Sleep rots away the brain, don’t it?!”

“People with wax heads oughta stay out of the sun.”

“Listen, I don’t wanna get in no trouble. I work. I’m just a parasite on parasites.”

“If you hear a peculiar noise, it’s my skin creeping.”

“Nobody loves a fat man. Out at second! Out at third! Out of my mind…”

This screenplay (by Clifford Odets) is over the top in the best way.

“This is a post office, son, full of second-class matter.”

“Her brother’s got a face like the back of a hairbrush.”

“This is New York, where hello means goodbye.”

“What’d you want to be when you were 12 years old, Boob McNutt?”

Poster for Deadline at Dawn with the tagline: "Killer hunt! Four hours to go!"

This #Noirvember I plan to focus on films I haven't seen before. First up: DEADLINE AT DAWN (1946).

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

PS - Sometimes advertising works! It was hearing the sponsor plug on the OFF PANEL podcast every week that finally convinced me to check it out.

The cover of Judge Dredd Megazine #485 (October 2025)

Dammit, @2000ad.bsky.social - you got me. After 6 years of reading the Prog, I finally picked up the Megazine… and got wrapped up in all 6 stories. Guess I’m a double-subscriber now. Not sure I can handle this much thrill-power!

I had several comics phases in my youth, but coming back after 25 years away, the two series that made me a comic book fan for life were HELLBOY and THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL.

Which reveals a lot about me, come to think of it…

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop: Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop) Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller) Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made) Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie) Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

reading any one random hellboy comic will cure a great many things, at least temporarily

A day with art is a good day indeed.

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!